Ectopocynus

Taxobox
name = "Ectopocynus"
fossil_range = Early Oligocene to Early Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
subfamilia = †Hesperocyoninae
genus = †"Ectopocynus"
genus_authority = Wang, 1994
type_species = †"Ectopocynus simplicidens"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* †"E. antiquus"
* †"E. intermedius"
* †"E. simplicidens"

"Ectopocynus" ("strange dog") is an extinct genus of dog (family Canidae) which inhabited North America 32 Mya to 18 Mya, described by Xiaoming Wang in 1994.

References

*Wang, X. 1994. [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/829 Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora, Canidae)] . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 221:1-207.